God formally disproven

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One of the properties of God is that he is omnibenevolent. This directly implies certain things about the world he would create. These are the implications:

1. God is omnibenevolent.
Therefore,

Christianity's assertion regarding god. One can assert anything concerning the nature of god because it is all neccesarily based upon pure assertion!

2. God must create the best world, otherwise he is not omnibenevolent.

Therefore,

3. The best world must be one where the creatures can freely choose to only do good actions.

Otherwise,

This is where they will get you. Arguing free will for the Christians entails choice between good and evil. If one is incapable of choosing evil, then one's will is not free. They would be caused by some part of their nature to choose good, it would not be "willed".

4. God is not omnibenevolent because it is impossible for God to not want to create the best world.

Therefore,

5. If God is necessarily omnibenevolent then evil cannot exist.

No, he would also need qualities of omnipotence and omniscience for this premise to be valid. Once again assertions based upon a Christian "understanding" of god.

Conclusion:
- Evil exists meaning God is not omnibenevolent. Therefore God does not exist.

Couple of errors here. The only conclusion one could draw would be that god is not omnibenevolent. God could still exist and simply not be omnibenevolent. Gods existence does not have his omnibenevolence as a precondition.

Christians often counteract this problem by appealing to the nature of free will coupled with the classic "anything god wills is good even if we don't understand it" argument. The idea being the only "good" is obedience to god's will and that all evil is either a byproduct of human free will or has some purpose we with our limited human understanding cannot comprehend. Job being the archetype.

This is essentially the "problem of evil" it is one of the few "problems" that most Christians will admit to. I think they do so because it doesn't argue directly against god's existence and is about as simple an argument one can get. Candide by Voltaire really tore this argument apart for me when I first read it. Its a short read and an interesting study in the nature of evil versus god's "divine plan".

EDIT: I'm half asleep so maybe my reasoning has a few holes here and there. Feedback on how to improve my argument is more than welcome. Also, feedback on why I'm completely wrong is more than welcome.